If an author writes 400 pages manuscript style, when it gets into book form will the book still be 400 pages?

Question

For example, say an author wrote a 500 page novel (manuscript form, double spaced-12 font) and then it got published, would it still be approxiametly 500 pages?

Answer 1

Well I would think that if you use double-spacing that it would definitely not be a 500 page novel by the time it got into the book. For one the editors are going to edit it if you let them which you will probably have to do to make them want to publish it. Beyond that if you take the double space and make it single spaced how many pages is it at that point? There should be a site out there somewhere for calculations like this.

Try http://brendacoulter.com/BrendaCoulterManuscript.htm

http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/fiction/2004/12/how_many_pages_.html

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Depends of the print for book font size and the layout chosen by the editor. Sometimes they cramp up the words and use small font to save on publishing cost... e.g. Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss"... winner of this year's Booker prize but I'm not going to read it cos I don't want to spoil my eyesight.

Answer 4

You never know, It might be more. Print for books is smaller and the font might be change and the pagers are smaller .

Answer 5

Not all the time, this depends on the number of paragraphs and length of the characters.

Answer 6

No, it would be less because it probably wouldn't be published double spaced.